The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry: 17Th and 18th Centuries
- ISBN-10
- 1438108354
- ISBN-13
- 9781438108353
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 488
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008-01-01
- Publisher
- Infobase Publishing
- Author
- Virginia Brackett
Description
Presents a comprehensive A-to-Z reference with approximately 400 entries providing facts about British poets and their poetry from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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